DELIVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

To provide a delivery management method that is based on resource conservation, energy conservation, ecology and the like. [Resolution Means] Host computers (10 and 20) that provide the steps of: selecting between a packaging mode using a cardboard box and a packaging mode using a return box that goes back and forth between a delivery destination and a product delivery center without the use of the cardboard box with regards to the packaging of a product when an order for a product is received from a terminal device (S103); assigning a return box and a pickup location of a delivery company in a zone that includes the delivery destination of the product when the packaging mode using the return box is selected using a selection screen (S111); stowing the product in the assigned return box at the product delivery center (S115); delivering the return box from the product delivery center (S116); and returning the return box to the product delivery center after the return box has been delivered (S119).

主权项

1. A delivery management system providing a terminal device of a purchaser and a host computer that connects to the terminal device through a communication line that delivers a product of an order by the purchaser from a product delivery center, wherein the host computer provides the steps of:
selecting between a packaging mode using a cardboard box and a packaging mode using a return box that goes back and forth between a delivery destination and the product delivery center without the use of the cardboard box with regards to the packaging of a product when an order for the product is received from the terminal device; assigning a return box and a pickup location of a delivery company in a zone that includes the delivery destination of the product when the packaging mode using the return box is selected using the selection screen; stowing the product in the assigned return box at the product delivery center; delivering the return box from the product delivery center; and returning the return box to the product delivery center after the return box has been delivered.